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‘Killing Kasztner’ documents Jewish man who negotiated with Nazis

\"Killing Kasztner\" is a documentary about Rezso Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew who saved more than 1,600 lives by negotiating with the Nazis but was accused of selling his soul to the devil in the process.
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July 15, 2010

From SeattleTimes.com:

‘Killing Kasztner,’ a documentary by Gaylen Ross. 116 minutes. Not rated; for mature audiences. In English and Hebrew, with English subtitles where needed. Northwest Film Forum through Thursday. Ross will be present at screenings throughout the opening weekend.

“I came to Israel to find a hero of the Holocaust,” says filmmaker Gaylen Ross at the beginning of her documentary “Killing Kasztner.” What she found was something infinitely more complicated.

Rezso Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew, undeniably saved the lives of more than 1,600 men, women and children during World War II when he negotiated with Nazi Adolf Eichmann to send a “rescue train” filled with Jews from Budapest to Switzerland in 1944. Yet he was also accused of the murder of many thousands by withholding information about the Auschwitz death camp, and branded, in a landmark libel case filed after the war, as a man who had “sold his soul to the devil” as a collaborator with Nazis. He was murdered in 1957, outside his Tel Aviv home, by a young right-wing extremist.

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